Comrade Antonov-Ovseenko. At your present location

I have received and read your report on Tambov Province 96. I request that you: firstly, submit a precise formulation of the draft proposal (in the spirit of what you have proposed) to the Small Soviet, the Council of Labor and Defense, or correspondingly to the Central Committee. Secondly, discuss whether it is not advisable to extend the operation of at least part of the Tambov apparatus to Saratov Province. I request a reply.

Lenin

Dictated by telephone
1 August 1921

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First published in 1933

in Lenin Collection XXIII

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